Word: holdup
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...clockwork heist that lasted just two minutes. In that brief time, the four stickup men netted what was probably the biggest holdup haul in French history: $3,540,000. But the question that bedeviled Frenchmen last week was what in the world the culprits thought they could do with their loot. The bandits had made off with newly minted, neatly packaged, bronze-colored ten-franc coins-1,770,000 of them, to be exact-that weighed 17.7 tons and would require nearly 30 cu. yds. of space merely to store. If the four bandits each spend...
...Massachusetts electric chair. In the half-century since, the case of the "good shoemaker" and the "poor fish peddler" has continued to stir men's passions. Generations of Americans have wrangled bitterly over whether or not the two admitted anarchists were guilty of shooting two men during a holdup and whether they received a fair trial. Last week Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis signed a proclamation officially stating that Sacco and Vanzetti had indeed been denied a fair trial. Sidestepping the issue of guilt or innocence, the Governor declared "the atmosphere at their trial and appeals was permeated by prejudice...
...Attempted breakout from a courthouse in St. Louis, Dec. 15, 1959, as he was about to go on trial for a $120 holdup. Ray pushed an escort deputy violently away, fled through the building until a policeman stopped him at gunpoint...
...grew into such an incompetent criminal that he dropped telltale identification at the site of one breakin; got lost after a holdup and drove his getaway car back into the robbery neighborhood, to be pursued and caught by surprised police; was caught another time when he re-entered the window of a business as he tried to steal more items from a place he had already robbed. Despite his reputation as an escape artist, most of his many efforts ended in frustration...
...lavarone sought out Bobby Lowe and got him to cooperate on the case. But when Lowe learned the reputation of the accused man, he started to back out. His parents and his wife urged him not to testify. Then his brother, who had been shot in a gas station holdup and later was helped by a witness who agreed to testify for him, told Lowe to "think for yourself, be your own man." Lowe finally agreed to be a prosecution witness...